Rosie Putland, Powerd, Apr 27, 2026
Last week’s announcement of cuts to the NDIS came as no surprise to a community that’s been bludgeoned by the media for the past several months.
From reports of “razor gangs” tasked with reigning in costs, to the steady drip of commentary on disability support as excessive and out of control, to the wave of misleading and deeply harmful media coverage about people with disability.
The ground was set.
The general public was primed to swallow an artificially sweetened version of the reforms whilst disabled people are pushed to fight each other for scraps, under the guise of “not putting the scheme at risk for those who need it most”.
In the immediate aftermath, I watched comments pour in across social media on a video I made to help our community understand the changes. Slowly, the video got whipped into algorithms where commenters felt emboldened to tell me that they wished for me to lose all my funding.
It’s hard to feel frustrated at the commenters though, when that’s the story they’ve so successfully been sold. That slashing disabled people’s supports to live is necessary and responsible for the future of Australia.
Read the full article: https://powerd.media/article/if-we-cant-afford-the-ndis-what-can-we-afford.